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Lamentations 2:1

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1062

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 9

    9/1/1988, p. 26

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1062; w07 6/1 9; w88 9/1 26;

    ad 733

Lamentations 2:2

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/1988, p. 26

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 187-189

  • Publications Index

    w88 9/1 26;

    kj 188

Lamentations 2:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Man’s Salvation, p. 295

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/1972, p. 660

    6/1/1952, pp. 347-349

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 187-189

  • Publications Index

    sl 295; w72 660; kj 188; nh 300; w52 348

Lamentations 2:4

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1084

    Man’s Salvation, p. 295

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/1972, p. 660

    6/1/1952, pp. 347-349

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 187-189

  • Publications Index

    it-2 1084;

    sl 295; w72 660; ad 1588; kj 188; nh 300; w52 348

Lamentations 2:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 9

    9/1/1988, pp. 26-27

  • Publications Index

    w07 6/1 9; w88 9/1 26-27

Lamentations 2:8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Revelation Climax, p. 162

  • Publications Index

    re 162

Lamentations 2:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Jeremiah, p. 73

  • Publications Index

    jr 73

Lamentations 2:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 169-171

  • Publications Index

    kj 170; bf 321

Lamentations 2:11

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 258-259

    The Watchtower,

    6/15/1967, pp. 381-383

  • Publications Index

    it-2 259;

    w67 382

Lamentations 2:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1158

  • Publications Index

    it-2 1158;

    ad 1638

Lamentations 2:14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/1988, p. 26

  • Publications Index

    w88 9/1 26

Lamentations 2:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 218

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 602

    Holy Spirit, pp. 165-166

  • Publications Index

    it-1 218; it-2 602;

    hs 165-166; ad 164, 1286

Lamentations 2:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 193-194

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 9

  • Publications Index

    it-2 193-194; w07 6/1 9

Lamentations 2:17

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 193-194

    Jeremiah, p. 154

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 9

  • Publications Index

    it-2 193-194; jr 154; w07 6/1 9

Lamentations 2:20

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 9

    8/1/1989, p. 29

    9/1/1988, p. 27

    5/15/1965, pp. 311-313

    11/15/1964, pp. 700-702

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 169-171

  • Publications Index

    w07 6/1 9; w89 8/1 29; w88 9/1 27;

    kj 170; w65 312; w64 701; bf 157, 260

Lamentations 2:21

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 169-171

    The Watchtower,

    5/15/1965, pp. 311-313

  • Publications Index

    kj 170; w65 312; bf 260

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King James Version
Lamentations 2:1-22

Lamentations

2 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

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